I have a question. Isn't it true that Newey received a Red Bull F1-car as a trophy to keep? My question is: can he actually drive it or would he need a whole team of F1 mechanics to start the thing? Or did Red Bull adapt the car for him with a in built starter etc?

I have a question. Isn't it true that Newey received a Red Bull F1-car as a trophy to keep? My question is: can he actually drive it or would he need a whole team of F1 mechanics to start the thing? Or did Red Bull adapt the car for him with a in built starter etc?

It would be minus the drive train, so would need to be adapted to take another unit.

Before this weekend he'd entered 6 races in his entire career. I would say that he was pretty inexperienced.

Not sure where you have plucked that informationfrom but I doubt it is true. I assume Newey qualified for his race licence in the UK, in which case i think he would need to have obtained 6 signatures on his National B race licence to upgrade to a National A licence and then between 3 and 6 signatures (depending on the race grade) on the A licence before he could apply for an International licence which he would have needed to enter LeMans.

JPM spun in the formation lap of Oz 2006. Alonso nearly crashes his car in the 2008 Spanish GP formation lap. Räikkönen spun his car in the formation lap of the 2004 Malaysian GP.

It can happen to anyone.

Including MS, who spun the Ferrari in the Silverstone pit road exit during a BGP free practice session in the early 2000's, but as there where no TV cameras or press around at the time it it never got publicised.

I seem to recall Jody Scheckter disproved that quite comprehensivly, and judging by the marks on the old pit wall he was not the only one over thye years

Woodcote back then was a very different corner. It was approached at top speed at the end of along straight as was 90 degrees of hanging on for dear life. Since the complex was put in Woodcote has been an easy flat acceleration zone for just about any car.

Didn't the guy right here in my avatar, for that very team (that will be Prost in a Ferrari for future reference if I change my avatar), spun and retired in a formation lap once, I think it was Imola in the wet?

Woodcote back then was a very different corner. It was approached at top speed at the end of along straight as was 90 degrees of hanging on for dear life. Since the complex was put in Woodcote has been an easy flat acceleration zone for just about any car.

Still see tyre marks ending up against the inside wall, so some people still manage to' run out of talent'.

Leaving comment on the accident itself, how great is it that a engineer is actively racing out there. What better way to get a real world understanding of the car dynamics to help support better design. I'm not saying that other engineers would be a Newey simply by racing, or that Newey would not be the force that he is if it wasn't for racing. Just that I believe there surely is some positive influence in his designs due to his racing and feeling the physics rather than only theorising it.

I dunno. Something about the way Adrian Newey drives/races makes me think he doesn't learn much. If he wasn't ADRIAN NEWEY you'd look at his career and wonder when he's going to start driving with his head.

I dunno. Something about the way Adrian Newey drives/races makes me think he doesn't learn much. If he wasn't ADRIAN NEWEY you'd look at his career and wonder when he's going to start driving with his head.

I could suggest quite a few names im motor sport who would quite easily fit that bill, but I guess as it's his money he is spending it is up to him how he spends it.

“It’s the first time I have raced since September last year,” said Newey after Saturday’s race. “I had a good battle to start with and then I had a spin – I thought I had done it myself, but I later discovered there was damage to the rear of the car, so I might have had a tap.”

Not sure where you have plucked that informationfrom but I doubt it is true. I assume Newey qualified for his race licence in the UK, in which case i think he would need to have obtained 6 signatures on his National B race licence to upgrade to a National A licence and then between 3 and 6 signatures (depending on the race grade) on the A licence before he could apply for an International licence which he would have needed to enter LeMans.

Not sure how accurate that database is - for 2010 for example, it shows 3 races in the Ginetta G50 series at Snetterton, but ignores completely the races he ran at the Goodwood Revival that year in a Ford GT-40 and E type Jaguar.

Is the Goodwood revival a proper, bona fide race meeting though? I always thought of it as more of a exhibition/festival for classic cars & bikes.

I think you are confusing it with the Goodwood Festival of Speed.The Goodwood Revival is a proper race meeting I believe it has an International Race permit. OK it is not F1 but that is not the only form of racing that exists, even if some round here might like to believe it is.

I'm a bit surprised Ross regards it as not being a race meeting - thought he made a living from motor racing.

Having watched TV footage of the Revival ovetr the years it seems to me that the drivers in some of the races are pushing much harder than those in F1 at the present. I admit that in Newey's case, somewhat harder than his talent allows.

Surprising attitude for a Motor Racing Consultant - Historic Racing is quite a large (and growing) part of the UK racing scene and most of these guys have more money than your average club driver and even your aspiring F1 drivers. Still I guess you know your target market.